قوین جیبی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قوین (koyun, “bosom”) + جیب (ceb, “pocket”).

Noun

قوین جیبی • (koyun cebi)

1. breast pocket, a small pocket on a jacket or shirt, located over one's chest

   Synonyms: حجر (hacr), قوین (koyun)

2. besom pocket, a pocket on the inside of a garment, accessed through a slit

   Synonym: قوین (koyun)

3. pocket formed by the folded halves of the upper clothing extending to the girdle

   Synonym: قوین (koyun)

Descendants

• → Armenian: խօյուն ճէպի (xōyun čēpi)
• → Bulgarian: кою́н джеб (kojún džeb), кую́н джеб (kujún džeb), кую́н-джоб (kujún-džob), коен джоб (koen džob)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جیب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 547
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 379a